INSIGHTS
QUESTION: "Which is the fastest gaming Mac?"
ANSWER: "It depends on what game(s) you are running." Some games are more CPU intensive. Some are more GPU intensive.

Our sample of four games had built-in benchmarks.

We included the fastest Mac laptop to illustrate that desktop Macs are preferred for gaming.

The pricey 2013 Mac Pro cylinder with dual FirePro D700s only makes sense if you run your games under Windows OS in a Boot Camp partition. Why? Because its two FirePro GPUs are hardwired into Crossfire mode.

Some games are much faster on a Hackintosh. We have been toying with one in our lab. With the GTX 980 Ti installed, it ran Batman: Arkham City 80% faster and Dirt 57% faster than the 2010 Mac Pro tower with the same GPU. However, Diablo III and Tomb Raider were only 2% and 4% faster respectively.